Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI

Back in March 2017, ACT Fibernet, India’s leading non-telco Internet Service Provider (ISP) unveiled the country’s first Gigabit broadband on fiber. However, the Gigabit service has been made available only in Hyderabad, making it the first Giga speed city in the country.
ACT Fibernet has over 65 percent of market share in Hyderabad, which obviously is another reason for the company to choose the city.
ACT Fibernet is the first player in the Indian internet market to GIGA enable an entire Indian city.
We’ve have spent enough time with the ACT Giga Broadband and here are our thoughts and analysis of our experience.
Feasibility and Activation duration:
The entire process took just 2 days from GIGA feasibility check up to a consumer actually enjoying GIGA speeds on his/her machine. The consumer is kept updated with all the relevant communication all the time during this process.
Setup:
The Customer Premises Equipment setup for GIGA Fibernet is also pretty simple and straight forward. All a consumer needs is an equipment which converts light signals to electrical signals as the data transmission directly happens via optical fiber.
The detailed overview of the setup is as illustrated.

Plans:
As these are plans for GIGA speeds, don’t expect them to be very consumer friendly or ultra cheap. These plans are for some serious users who prefer speeds, quality, and connectivity all the time. Basic Plan starts from Rs. 5999 monthly to yearly plans with attractive long term benefits.

ACT FIBERNET GIGABIT PLAN DETAILS:

Flexy Bytes:
A customer can add additional data to his account if he feels his monthly data usage limit is insufficient to meet his data needs for the month via Flexy Bytes. The concept of Flexy Bytes is so simple; with flexy bytes, one can top up data to their existing broadband plan. Top Ups are available from as low as 10GB to 100GB. You can also top up any number of times depending on your requirement.
